Einar's railroad pencilogue

[Einar]

Some progress

[Joseph Dredd]

Einar, your artwork is fantastic and your women are sexy, but I have an odd question... do you know what an osoto gari is?

[Einar]

Hey, Thanks a lot. It's really nice to hear that.

On the question... Ergh, you gave me a good riddle. I didn't know what it is till I googled it, and then I tried to figure out why you asked it. The best I could come up with is Five Finger Death Punch having a guitarist sharing my first name and also being a martial artist.

[Joseph Dredd]

Hey, Thanks a lot. It's really nice to hear that.

On the question... Ergh, you gave me a good riddle. I didn't know what it is till I googled it, and then I tried to figure out why you asked it. The best I could come up with is Five Finger Death Punch having a guitarist sharing my first name and also being a martial artist.

lol I used to post on a martial arts discussion board where we compared training techniques and swapped competition videos and things like that and there was Judo-based fighter named Einar who loved the Osoto Gari and swore he could kill a dinosaur with it. I just thought it would be wild if I somehow ran into him again on a totally different board.

[Einar]

Haha, I see. Well martial arts is left out of my deeper interests, so unfortunately it wasn't me, but would have been great for a laugh.

[Einar]

Wasn't happy with my abs work on the last piece, so started to do some photo referenced practice:

[Einar]

and one for the ladies (photoref practice):

plus some leather jacket practice from earlier (photoref)

[Einar]

Haven't been active here for a long while again. At least this time it didn't mean a stop to drawing/painting, just a slightly stronger focus on practice. Also, I'm hunting for a house to buy and it just takes time and brings no result - half of the houses are gone buy the time we can look at them and the other half are just extremely expensive (and again gone by the time I decide to offer more money)
Anyhoo, here is an art dump.
Referenced practice - using photos, or Loomis.






Project work:

[Einar]

I accidentally came across this awesomeness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvtiuy7AGk

I just couldn't believe it, I just fell in love with this stuff. I had given up on Blizzard a good 8 years ago, but this got me all interested in Warcraft again. And orcs!!

So here we go:


No ref - and I think I'm finally gaining a grasp on the blender + pencil technique.